IBM Cognos Online Conference for Retailers and Manufactures  by IBM

October 21, 2009 - This 2-hour complimentary virtual seminar on performance management (PM) takes place on October 21 and continues on November 4th — Join us to learn how PM can help you improve visibility into your manufacturing business so you can reduce costs, speed delivery and efficiency, satisfy customers and create innovative new products.

IBM Performance Manager online demo  by IBM

October 07, 2009 - See how plans, financial reports and scorecards can help you manage performance across all data sources in this flash demo.

Ice Cream Maker Puts the Freeze on Server Sprawl, Saves More Than $500,000  by Microsoft

March 01, 2009 - Wells' Dairy needed to provide cost-effective services and promote business continuity and agility. It deployed the Windows Server 2008 Datacenter operating system and Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. Today, it has a scalable server consolidation solution and a data center that is saving more than US.$12,000 in annual electrical costs.

IDC Technology Spotlight: Everyone's a Genius: SaaS-Delivered Business Intelligence Tools Put Decision Making in the Hands of Decision Makers  by SAP BusinessObjects

April 01, 2009 - Inexpensive, easy-to-deploy SaaS BI can help companies put easy-to-use data mining and reporting tools for smart decision making into the hands of more employees and uncover the real “geniuses” of decision making hidden in every department.

IDC Workbook: Assess the Value of Deduplication for your Storage Consolidation Initiatives  by Data Domain

September 17, 2008 - Deduplication is an emerging technology that has the potential to help organizations improve enterprise storage and recovery performance. By completing the worksheet here, organizations can determine if they should immediately invest in deduplication.

Implementing a Data Quality Strategy  by DataFlux Corporation

January 06, 2009 - In this program Gartner Research Vice President Ted Fredman and DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher discuss the data quality issues facing business today as well as the solutions that can solve these problems.

Improve Operational Performance by Visualizing and Analyzing Relevant KPI and KPD Metrics: Support Continuous Improvement with Value Stream Management and Operational Intelligence  by myDIALS Inc.

November 04, 2009 - This paper outlines the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI metrics) together with associated Key Performance Drivers (KPD metrics) within the context of value stream management to support continuous operational performance improvement.

Improve Your Back Up: Getting the Most out of Data Deduplication  by PC Connection in partnership with EMC

October 21, 2009 - Now more than ever, organizations are looking at re-architecting their backup strategy and are learning that deduplication is necessary to consider in ‘next generation’ backup architecture. This presentation transcript explores some deduplication tips and advice on how to streamline your storage costs.

Improving Energy Efficiency with Intel® Xeon® Processor-based Servers and VMware Virtualization Infrastructure  by Insight & Intel

October 06, 2009 - VMware Enhanced VMotion coupled with Intel VT FlexMigration allows live migration across different generations of Intel Xeon processor-based servers, giving IT managers the freedom to move workloads whenever necessary, helping ensure business continuity during unforeseen spikes in data center resources.

Increasing Efficiencies in the Data Center - Making Your Wide Area Network Work for You  by Datalink Corporation

August 01, 2009 - Please join Kent Christensen, Virtualization Practice Manager, Datalink, as he analyzes and explains WAN efficiencies between data centers. In addition to the topic of transferring data over the WAN more efficiently between the primary and secondary data centers, much of the presentation will apply to small remote offices as well.

Infor - ERP LN  by Infor

September 04, 2008 - Infor ERP LN is an advanced, easy-to-use ERP solution that brings together a wide range of business functions to serve the needs of leading discrete and project-based manufacturers in industrial industries. Check out this demo for more details.

Infor - ERP SyteLine  by Infor

September 04, 2008 - Infor ERP SyteLine spans the business of manufacturing to align supply with demand and support the business and operational challenges of manufacturers. Download this demo to get a better understanding of how this software can benefit your company.

Information Security Essential Guide to SIMs  by Information Security Magazine

November 17, 2009 - Security information management systems can now be used for proactive risk management and business intelligence. This Essentials Guide explains how this can be achieved. Read on to find articles that cover topics like today's SIM trends, incident response, threat management, and data analysis.

Information Security Magazine - September 2009: Readers’ Choice Awards  by Information Security Magazine

September 15, 2009 - This issue of Security Information Magazine features the 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards. For the fourth consecutive year, our readers voted to determine the best security products. A record 1,721 voters participated this year, rating products in 17 different categories. There’s also a great article on the facts and myths about encryption and more.

Insurance Video: 50% Speed to Market Gains with BRMS  by IBM

March 25, 2009 - Check out this webcast to hear discussions from Kyle Kelt, Director of IT for VSP; Donald Light, Senior Analyst/Insurance Group for Celent, and domain experts from IBM and ILOG, an IBM Company.

Integrated Threat Management: How to Find the Right Solution  by Trend Micro, Inc.

September 09, 2009 - Read this expert E-Guide to learn more about the integrated threat management landscape and receive some tips and best practices to properly deploy an integrated threat management solution.

Intel IT Technology Center  by Intel

November 12, 2009 - The resources compiled here explore ways your organization can work to achieve high performance computing. Read more about boosting server performance, how you can power desktops, increasing mobility and securing client systems. These tools will provide you with information to help your organization deliver the best overall performance. Period.

Intelligent Defense: SIMs for Threat Management  by Q1 Labs

November 18, 2009 - Learn about security information management systems (SIMs) and how they support a security information lifecycle of collection, alerting, reporting, and forensics.

Intercepting Interference  by Motorola, Inc.

September 01, 2009 - Motorola’s industry leading wireless broadband expertise helps to substantially reduce the effects of interference for point-to-multipoint wireless access and distribution networks in both licensed and unlicensed frequencies. This solution paper gives the details.

Introduction to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5  by McAfee, Inc.

September 10, 2009 - Many organizations have cut costs by distributing IT across the globe. This makes integration and management a challenge. To ensure your security team is on the same page, check out this video to learn about a solution that allows you to manage different technologies in different time zones with a localized system.

Investlink Taps Business Objects for Fast, Flexible, and Scalable Reporting  by SAP America Inc

October 12, 2009 - Find out how Investlink used SAP BusinessObjects tools to enable third-party administrators who work with investment advisors and plan sponsors to build and change statements on an ad hoc basis.

Is Your Network Ready for VoIP?  by Blue Coat

December 02, 2008 - This paper summarizes in question and answer format the many critical factors pertaining to VoIP's viability, regardless of which vendor's IP-PBX system is deployed across the distributed enterprise.

IT Briefing: Managing the Mobile User -- Best Practices for Technology and People  by Orange Business Services

April 22, 2009 - The purpose of this IT Briefing is to help you overcome some of the common hurdles of mobile management and implement a mobile strategy that will put your company where it needs to be, a mobile strategy that will follow all the issues that relate to IT going forward.

IT Briefing: Why Waste Half of Your Server Virtualization Budget?  by HP, Citrix, and Intel

November 27, 2009 - The costs for power, cooling, server management and administration are now consuming more of IT budgets than even the cost for new hardware. In this IT Briefing, you'll learn about Citrix Essentials, Intel Xeon 5500, and HP ProLiant G6 for XenServer.

IT Survey Results: Top Priorities Through 2010  by BMC Software, Inc

November 09, 2009 - What will be most important to IT organizations over the next 12 months? It's probably no surprise that cost control or reduction in spending is the key priority. This white paper looks at the near-term activities of the IT organizations surveyed by TechTarget, along with their constraints, issues, motivating factors, and strategies.

ITIL® v3: What It Is and Why You Should Care  by Global Knowledge

October 11, 2008 - This paper explains ITIL by describing its benefits, where it comes from, why you need to know about it, which types of IT organization can benefit from using it, and how to get started.